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Cloud FinOps Engineer

Calix
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Mid · 3+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 months ago
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)BigQueryLookerCloud MonitoringGrafanaCompute Engine

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Build and Operate FinOps Tooling

Develop and maintain FinOps dashboards, reporting, and automation solutions

Leverage: GCP Billing Export BigQuery Looker Studio Cloud Monitoring

GCP Billing Export

BigQuery

Looker Studio

Cloud Monitoring

Build automated cost reporting and anomaly detection capabilities

Create self-service visibility for engineering and product teams

Drive Infrastructure-as-Code Governance

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code standards using: Terraform Terragrunt

Terraform

Terragrunt

Embed cost controls into infrastructure deployment workflows

Implement guardrails to prevent inefficient resource provisioning

Ensure tagging and resource ownership standards are enforced across all environments

Partner with engineering teams to improve infrastructure efficiency through code

Integrate FinOps into Cloud Operations

Work alongside Cloud Operations and SRE teams to ensure cost becomes a first-class operational metric

Participate in recurring cost optimization reviews

Establish operational processes for anomaly detection and remediation

Develop automated cleanup and lifecycle management solutions

Create operational playbooks for cost management and resource governance

Forecast, Budget, and Report

Develop cloud consumption forecasts and spend projections

Perform variance analysis against budgets

Provide regular reporting to technical and business stakeholders

Establish and track FinOps KPIs and cloud efficiency metrics

Support chargeback and showback initiatives

Support Governance and Compliance

Ensure cloud spend aligns with organizational governance policies

Support audit and compliance requirements

Promote accountability and ownership across cloud-consuming teams

Maintain documentation, standards, and operational procedures related to cloud financial management

Required Qualifications

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • 5+ years of cloud infrastructure or cloud operations experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience
  • Strong working knowledge of: GCP Billing BigQuery Compute Engine GKE Cloud SQL Cloud Storage VPC Networking Identity and Access Management (IAM) Grafana
  • GCP Billing
  • BigQuery
  • Compute Engine
  • GKE
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Storage
  • VPC Networking
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Grafana

Infrastructure as Code

Advanced Terraform experience

Strong Terragrunt experience

Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules

Experience implementing infrastructure governance through code

Strong understanding of Git-based infrastructure workflows

Automation & Development

Strong Python scripting skills

Strong SQL skills, especially BigQuery

Experience building automation for cloud operations

Familiarity with APIs and cloud-native automation frameworks

Experience developing operational tooling for engineering teams

FinOps & Cloud Economics

Experience performing cloud cost analysis and optimization

Experience managing cloud budgets and forecasting

Strong understanding of: Cost allocation strategies Resource tagging frameworks Chargeback/showback models Unit economics Financial accountability in cloud environments

Cost allocation strategies

Resource tagging frameworks

Chargeback/showback models

Unit economics

Financial accountability in cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP)
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
  • Kubernetes administration and optimization experience
  • Experience supporting environments exceeding seven-figure annual cloud spend
  • Experience operating in SOC2, ISO27001, or regulated environments
  • Experience building enterprise-scale FinOps program
  • We are seeking a highly technical FinOps Engineer to drive cloud financial management, optimization, and governance across our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. This is a hands-on engineering role that combines cloud infrastructure expertise, automation, financial analytics, and operational governance. The successful candidate will partner with Cloud Operations, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Finance teams to ensure cloud resources are deployed efficiently, operated responsibly, and continuously optimized for cost and business value. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working directly with GCP services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform/Terragrunt, cloud billing data, automation, and large-scale cloud operations.
  • What You'll Do Lead GCP Cost Optimization Initiatives
  • Analyze cloud spending across GCP environments and identify opportunities for optimization
  • Drive reduction of waste across: Compute Engine GKE AlloyDB BigQuery Cloud SQL Cloud Storage Networking
  • AlloyDB
  • Networking
  • Identify rightsizing opportunities and utilization improvements
  • Optimize commitment strategies including: Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) Sustained Use Discounts
  • Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
  • Sustained Use Discounts
  • Track realized savings and cost avoidance initiatives

Location:

  • India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)

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